Cannes learns context 🦁
As someone who has chronicled the PR sector's uneven emergence at Cannes since 2009, there are good reasons for optimism.
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Cannes bubbles rise again 🫧
Creativity helps us make sense of larger truths, but the line between myth-making and fabrication is a thin one.
Japan's domestic playbook is no longer enough
This week's newsletter examines the structural trends reshaping Japan's communications sector, Burson's hire of Jonty Summers, OPR's new A-P lineup, and much more.
Of cockroaches & credibility🪳
India's Cockroach Janta Party has 22 million Instagram followers, no formal ideology, and many lessons for communicators paying attention to the power of frustrated youth.
The hard road from disruptor to respected sports brand
The Enhanced Games and LIV Golf are two sporting properties with a shared challenge: getting attention and earning legitimacy are entirely different games.
Vector rethinks global push as founder loses control
Japan's biggest PR firm had ambitious plans to overtake Edelman atop the global rankings, but a debt crisis has put an unconventional entrepreneur/entertainer in charge.
Jim O'Leary to depart Weber Shandwick for Penta
Weber Shandwick's global president is leaving to become CEO of corporate advisory firm Penta.